Gun companies walk a very fine line in advertising weapons. In recent years the delicate nature of selling a deadly product to a mass audience has kept gun ads away from mainstream outlets like newspapers or television. But once upon a time, the nation’s gun makers didn’t need to be so sensitive. A scan of…
San Francisco before the earthquake in 1906
San Fransisco was born as a city in the times of Gold Rush (1849) and boomed, growing from 800 people in 1848 to 35,000 in 1852 and 57,000 in 1860. That made San Fransisco the fifteenth largest city in the nation. There were fashionable department stores, luksury hotels, modern cable cars, a new city hall, believed to be…
Rare color photos of Hiroshima after atomic explosion
That’s how Hiroshima looked like after the dropping of the atom bomb on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the…
Berlin in July 1945 (color footage)
This what happened to the capital of Germany during WW2 The battle of Berlin started on April 16th and continued until the city garrison surrendered on May 2nd. The capitulation of the german capital led to the prompt end of Nazi Germany.
Riding down the steps of the United States Capitol, 1885
Will Robertson of the Washington Bicycle Club riding an American Star Bicycle down the steps of the United States Capitol, 1885
Tony Curtis and his daughter Kelly on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1959
By the way when Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon first dressed as women, they decided to walk around the Goldwyn Studios and check if they could pass as female. They tried using mirrors in public ladies rooms to fix makeup, and when none of the women using it noticed something was wrong, they understood that…
Women’s Rights march to the Statue of Liberty, 1978
The older woman sitting in the front is an 80 year old suffragist Isolda Dubic, supporter of 1920’s ERA. A banner reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
